Can someone put this in more sentence and add some vocab to it and like jsut reword it she is also highly independent and does not fear to live in her own skin. because of this, she is disdainful of people who “act like things come easily for them”, like cynthia proctor, or of events such as the may pole dance, where she’d have to dress up and act all girly just to her mother. she knows her capabilities on the track and is contemptuous of the new girl gretchen, who thinks that she is a better runner than her. in fact, she is so confident of her racing skills that she is not afraid to tell everybody that gretchen is no competition to her. towards the end of the story, squeaky learns that raymond too is quite a runner. this is after raymond runs on the other side of the fence, during her race. for the first time in her life, she does not worry about whether she has won the race or not, rather she thinks about how later on she can work on coaching raymond to be a better runner, to have some of the glory she too has had in life. the fact that gretchen could have just as easily won the race, teaches her empathy for raymond and others, even for gretchen herself. she realizes that gretchen is a great athlete and smiles at her. this is her first friendly gesture towards gretchen. squeaky describes the smiles that pass between her and gretchen, as “smiles of respect”.